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Street Light Monitoring and Control System 1Abdul Latif Saleem,

2Raja Sagar R,

3Sachin Datta N S,

4Sachin H S,

5Usha M S (Associate Professor and HOD)

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NIE Institute of Technology, Mysore, India

I. INTRODUCTION

A well-designed, street lighting system should

permit users to travel at night with good visibility, in

safety and comfort, while reducing many malfunctions

occurs during night and enhancing the appearance of

the neighborhood. Conversely, poorly designed

lighting systems can lead to poor visibility which may

not be helpful for any pedestrian and who are passing

by that street.

Quite often, street lighting is poorly designed

and inadequately maintained (e.g., there are large

numbers of burned-out lamps), and uses obsolete

lighting technology, thus consuming large amounts of

energy and financial resources.

Providing street lighting is one of the most

important and expensive responsibilities of a city.

Street lighting is a particularly critical concern for

public authorities in developing countries because of

its strategic importance for economic and social

stability. Our proposed plan for street light monitoring

and control system can provide street lighting

maintenance. This maintenance can also enable

municipalities to expand street lighting to additional

areas, increasing access of providing street light for all

the streets and also other underserved areas. In

addition, improvements in lighting quality and

expansion in services can improve safety conditions

for both vehicle traffic and pedestrians.

The application is designed in such a way that

we place light sensors in all the street lights circuit and

which are responsible to switch on and off

automatically. Once the lights are switched on, current

sensors placed at every light pole are responsible to

report problem status to the centralized system with

the help of GSM module attached with the circuit.

With the status available in the centralized system, the

workman now can easily locate the particular light to

be taken care which minimizes the time to search it

and repair. The system also collects useful information

from each street light at the end of each day. The

information is stored in the database and based on this

information charts are derived. The charts are

displayed in the street light section which contains

information like power consumption, total number of

burning hours, total number of interruptions, tallies the

actual power consumption with the power supplied,

details of fault detection i.e., actual location of street

light. The system is also provided with optimal sleep

scheduling protocol to increase the lifetime of the

street lights. This kind of proposed effective street lighting is an

important way of increasing road safety at night; it improves

the quality of life for residents by deterring crime and by

Abstract: The project "STREET LIGHT MONITORING AND CONTROL SYSTEM" is developed for automatic

street lights maintenance and to reduce power consumption. The application is designed in such a way that we

place light sensors in all street light circuits, which is responsible to switch on and off automatically. once the

lights are switched on current sensors placed at every street light circuits are responsible to report problem status

to the centralized system with help of GSM module attached with the circuit. The status is available in the

centralized system, the work man now can easily locate the particular light to take care which minimizes the time

to search it and repair. The system also maintains database to store useful information from each street light like

power consumption, total number of burning hours, total number of interruptions, tally the actual power

consumption with the power supplied and details of fault detection. Hence maintaining the system with optimal

power consumption giving commercial benefits to business and the prosperity of the city as a whole.

.Keywords: current sensor, GSM, Light Dependant Resistor [LDR], microcontroller

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making people feel more secure. Lighting is also used to

improve the ambience of areas, which is commercially

beneficial to businesses and the prosperity of the city as a

whole.

The proposed system aim to achieve

individual faults repaired within few working hours

instead of taking days/even months’ time spent in

current system where a staff actually goes on “light

patrols” six/eight times a year to check for such faulty

lamps. Generally, they rely on residents or other

municipal employees to report active lights (in other

words, faulty street lights).

II. LITERATURE SERVEY

Automatic Street Lights [1]

, this project is all

about to control the power consumptions at the streets

and eliminating manpower. This includes controlling a

circuit of street lights with specific Sensors, LDR and

Microcontrollers during day and night. This requires

three basic components i.e. LDR, Sensors and

microcontroller. During daytime there is no

requirement of street lights so the LDR keeps the street

light off until the light level is low or the frequency of

light is low the resistance of the LDR is high. This

prevents current from flowing to the base of the

transistors. Thus the street lights do not glow.

Automatic Street Light Control System Using

Microcontroller [2], this paper aims at designing and

executing the advanced development in embedded

systems for energy saving of street lights. Nowadays,

human has become too busy, and is unable to find time

even to switch the lights wherever not necessary. This

paper gives the best solution for electrical power

wastage. Also the manual operation of the lighting

system is completely eliminated. In this paper the two

sensors are used which are Light Dependent Resistor

LDR sensor to indicate a day/night time and the

photoelectric sensors to detect the movement on the

street. The microcontroller PIC16F877A is used as

brain to control the street light system, where the

programming language used for developing the

software to the microcontroller is C-language.

Intelligent Street Lighting System Using

GSM [3]

, Conventional street lighting systems in areas

with a low frequency of passers are by online most of

the night without purpose. The consequence is that a

large amount of power is wasted meaninglessly. With

the broad availability of flexible-lighting technology

like light-emitting diode lamps and everywhere

available wireless internet connection, fast reacting,

reliably operating, and power-conserving street

lighting systems become reality. The purpose of this

work is to describe the Intelligent Street Lighting (ISL)

system, a first approach to accomplish the demand for

flexible public lighting systems.

GSM based smart street light monitoring and

control system[4]

, it is an automated system designed

to increase the efficiency and accuracy of an industry

by automatically timed controlled switching of street

lights they are basically two modules which include

the client side and the server side. The client side

consists of GSM modem which is further connected to

the microcontroller which is further connected to the

relay circuit; the server side consists of GSM modem

connected to the Monitoring and Control Application.

III. PROPOSED SYSTEM

Street light is poorly designed and

inadequately maintained, there are large number of

burned out lamps which leads to insecurity. There is a

complaint register in every zone office street light

section. It is being maintained by the line inspector.

The complaint received from public, councillors and

corporation officials either over phone or in person

being recorded in the complaint register. The

complaint thus entered is being handed over to the

fieldwork man so as to rectify the complaints. The

field staff will have the rounds in the respective areas

twice in a week and the complaints about non-burning

are also being attended then and there. But this is not

the immediate remedy on complaints and has many

disadvantages like the repair work takes days/even

months instead of taking few hours which results in

delay, telephone line may be busy, sometimes no

response.

IV. WORKING PRINCIPLE

The application is designed in such a way that

we place light sensors in all the street lights circuit and

which are responsible to switch on and off

automatically. Once the lights are switched on, current

sensors placed at every light poles are responsible to

report problem status to the centralized system with

the help of GSM module attached with the circuit.

With the status available in the centralized system, the

workman now can easily locate the particular light to

be taken care which minimizes the time to search it

and repair. The system also collects useful information

from each street light at the end of each day. The

information is stored in the database such as power

consumption, total number of burning hours, and total

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number of interruptions, tally the actual power

consumption with the power supplied, details of fault

detection i.e., actual location of street light.

Fig.1 Sequence Diagram

Fig.2 Design Methodology

V. RESULT AND DISCUSSION

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number of interruptions, tally the actual power

details of fault

In above bar graph

manual/special mode, automated

mode is shown. In manual mode is operated in special

cases (Govt. Functions) and the power

high.

Whereas in Automated mode we are using

LDR to switch ON/OFF of lights automatically

is the best feasible solution. In Timed Mode we are

switch ON/OFF light without intervention of human

using time specified by the Admin. As we c

the 3rd

and 4th time interval in the

shedding is taking place hence the power consumption

is optimized.

VI. APPLICATION

• Corporate field.

• Street lights (KPTCL).

• Home power control system.

• Institutions/Organisation.

VII. SCOPE OF THE PROJECT

• Automatic switching off alternate

time for power consumption.

• Switch on and off automatically.

• Street light false detection.

• If complaint not rectified by area wise system then

information to higher level office (Z

on some constraint like not rectified even after two

days.

• Alert notification and automatic off for particular

street light if there is any abnormal

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In above bar graph comparison between

, automated mode and timer

mode is shown. In manual mode is operated in special

cases (Govt. Functions) and the power consumption is

as in Automated mode we are using

LDR to switch ON/OFF of lights automatically and it

is the best feasible solution. In Timed Mode we are

switch ON/OFF light without intervention of human

using time specified by the Admin. As we can see in

time interval in the bar-graph, load-

shedding is taking place hence the power consumption

APPLICATION

Home power control system.

SCOPE OF THE PROJECT

off alternate lights during night

automatically.

If complaint not rectified by area wise system then

office (Zone level) based

on some constraint like not rectified even after two

Alert notification and automatic off for particular

street light if there is any abnormal/subnormal

Time Interval (Seconds)

Manual/

Special Mode

Automated

Mode

Timed Mode

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consumption of power to avoid short circuit or any

such related problems, also message to the respective

workman.

• The useful information is collected from the street

light at the end of each day this information is stored

in a database and based on this information charts are

derived.

• Chart contains information like, Power consumption,

Total number of burning hours, and Total number of

interruptions.

• Wireless Communication.

• Can be deployed on any street light circuit.

• Reduces power consumption.

• Reduces human resource.

• Increases the life time of the street light.

VIII. CONCLUSION

We can conclude that using this methodology 2-

way communication can be possible. Technical

solution for implementation of wireless intelligent

smart street lighting system is made easier. It provides

a low cost infrastructure for managing street lighting

system. Single point controlling of street lights is made

possible. Energy consumption can be controlled

making it eco-friendly in usage.

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